Reborn to Dodge the Bad Marriage novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51 The Wrong Chart

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The nurse leaned in and said a few words in Elaine’s ear, low enough that Nora clearly wasn’t meant to catch them.

Nora let out a short breath. “If it’s that shameful, no wonder you’re whispering”

Elaine frowned and turned to the nurse. “Go get Wren Calloway’s chart and her results. Let Nora look at them.”

The nurse went in, came back out, and handed Nora the chart and the test results.

Elaine assumed none of it would mean anything to her and walked her through it. “The patient has severe uterine fibroids. Put an ectopic pregnancy and a hemorrhage on top of that, and the uterus has to come out.

“We’re doctors. Nobody in this building wants to lose a patient. You need to trust us.”

Nora read the results. On paper, the fibroids were severe.

Something about it didn’t sit right, though. She went through it a second time and scoffed. “This isn’t Wrens ultrasound at all.”

Elaine’s face hardened. “Her name is printed right there on it. How is it not hers? If you came here to make a

scene…”

Nora tapped the page and cut her off. “The uterine wall on this scan is scarred. Whoever it belongs to has had three terminations. Look at the cervix and you’ll see she’s delivered two children. She’s 35 at the youngest.”

“My cousin is 25, and this is her first pregnancy. How could that possibly be her scan?”

Elaine stared at her. “You’re an OB yourself?” She’d read the same page and hadn’t gotten a tenth of that out of it.

Nora didn’t answer the question. “I don’t have time to chat. I want Wren rescanned, and I’m not signing this.”

“That scan is hers,” the nurse said. “If you don’t trust our doctors, take your patient somewhere else.”

Nora lifted her eyes and looked at her, cold.

Whatever was in that look ended the conversation.

Elaine went serious. “Wren does have an ectopic pregnancy and she is hemorrhaging. She came in far too late as it is, and there’s no time to move her.

“We don’t want to lose her either. Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

Nora’s smile had nothing behind it. “I’m sorry. I don’t gamble with family.”

“Then what exactly do you want?” Elaine was losing her temper.

Nora knew how little time there was. Drag this out much longer and Wren would lose the uterus anyway, and possibly her life with it.

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Chapter 51 The Wrong Chart

“I’ll do the surgery.”

“You?” Elaine didn’t believe a word of it.

Nora nodded. “I’ll do it. Whatever happens after that is on me.”

Elaine said no before Nora had finished. “Absolutely not. You don’t practice here.”

Nora was done arguing. “I’ll do the surgery. I won’t take this public, and I won’t come after this hospital foy handing me the wrong scan. I’ll take responsibility for it, as a Weston.”

The name changed something in Elaine’s face.

“Let me check with the director,” Elaine said.

She stepped aside to make the call, finished it fast, and turned back. “He agrees. We film the whole thing, and you go on record taking responsibility.”

Nora was too worried about Wren to hesitate. “Fine.”

They filmed her releasing the hospital from liability, and then she followed Elaine through the doors.

She scrubbed in, gowned up, and took her place at the table.

Word had already come down from the director that somebody else would be operating in Elaine’s place, and the team still stared when they saw who it was.

Nora took one look at Wren, who lay white-faced with her eyes shut.

She put a hand on Wren’s abdomen and pressed. “Nothing has ruptured. There’s still time. We’re doing this laparoscopically.”

Everyone in the room looked at Elaine.

Elaine nodded. “Do what she says.”

After that, everyone in the room did exactly what Nora told them to.

Elaine watched her work, and every movement was practiced. Suction cleared the blood, she found the site, she took the pregnancy out, and the repair held.

The whole thing was fast and clean, better than Elaine could have done it, and every person at that table came out of it impressed.

Elaine asked her, “Miss Sinclair, which hospital are you with? That was extraordinary. A bleed like that, and you never opened her up.”

Nora turned her head. “Her blood loss was manageable. It wasn’t an acute bleed. Instead of calling me extraordinary, you might ask whether the doctors here are simply bad at this or working on somebody else’s orders.

In the rush to get Wren onto the table there’d been no room to think. Now that it was over, the truth was that Wren had never been that close to the edge, and there had been time for open surgery if it came to

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